At 5:30 p.m. listen up right here to Cy Musiker's interview with Ted Griggs, of Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area, about Out. The Glenn Burke Story.

That's a documentary that will be shown tonight at the Castro Theater in San Francisco and on the cable network. I listened to the full interview and it was pretty fascinating. Burke was a gay Major League Baseball player for the Dodgers and A's who moved to the Castro after his playing days, eventually dying of AIDS-related complications. Griggs talked about Burke not trying to hide his sexuality to his teammates, about his wicked sense of humor, and about the homophobia he experienced at the hands of Oakland A's manager Billy Martin.

Watch the film's trailer:

Here's a moving column by the Oakland Tribune's Monte Pool about Burke, who was a baseball and basketball star at Berkeley High in the 1970s.

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Glenn Burke Documentary Tells Tale of Gay Major Leaguer